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TWO-SWORD MEN OF JAPAN WUh THwir C»wMftt|¥wry F#w Vtarw Ago. tho tot rot of Blodomaking DiMppoarod. An lute no 1808 thero woro oomo (lO.OUO two-oword mon In Japan. hlK l >- trained fighters attached to the nobles of the land In bands ranging from two or three, to an entire army. When the revolution came the work of thd two-sword men was done, the nation was made into a solid unit and the strength of the blade carriers was needed aj plow and bench. With this disbanding, an exchange explains, the trade of the swordraaker was also lost to the vast number fol lowing It. and with them, as the years passed, died the secrets of the war rior tools. Swords can be obtained In Japap today . whose blades are so keen • they can cut through a veil or a sofa cushion, and ‘ulso can be driven through a bar of iron, provided the wielder has the strength. Others have blades covered with a beautiful and intricate tracery that disappears and reappears at odd times, and no one- can solve the “why” of It. One mo- • ment the blade Is as smooth and un marked as a mirror ami the next the .design leaps out before the eye of the startled beholder and can even be felt by sensitive fingers. Yet other blades ■ re colored red. blue, silver or gold, ■nd while seemingly an alloy, a chem ical analysis shows nothing but steel. Y>t others are coated with a poison tkat la unseen, hut beyond all other pplsona deadly. In large part It con •lata of decayed human blood. RACE SOON TO BE EXTINCT An Unchristian Martyr B, MARTHA M. WILLIAMS P **la In Waka a# Civilisation Hava tpalt Ooo** ta the Polynoaiana Of leuth §000. Sltot o^ndem rtvUtttttoa la bringing O»orh and rstormlnattoa ta tko opto* did liaoara at •prat rtato oa tfco koaatlfal ooatkreo fariftc 11a ■§■ CtorWa Boeaard la tho AtiaatK Moaibiy. la log o*ee tku •ayo- ^To say that ClArtHaatty waa lltoie aad«4ag waaM ko award; iWt dwd aad are if lag aadao tka aargaark aawia a# tW Kaeapraa ftvHaftaa of a kick cant toawj «•• tw Ntovaa are. B*wryw%rrv la tko Boaik «aoo vka aory hao koaa tko aaa*. vkotkov told ky Bwoaowaa or MafvltW. OS iaaflo Bora a Wa kaoalNt ikoaa d*o eaoo j aa waakght tkoaa ooMtaa rwta lag faAaaof ao gr*ai a earvol j ao *ap appawad tka opaeva aasd aaoovaaoaf oad arftf aata • a paafeOrd tk# •*d Maodevv ia aalataaa taoOv aatoroai as afk %ad ksatty a# kooagW *kma oa o*tra mgo *d aamsta. aktv% aaavoadpd rasrdy mb aaaksag kyyaarstm «f iko mm aWMa aaai* 1 aao ar»sgard as oaoo T •lay ikrer la a^ktag sa ka msM assiaag as kr doaoe-- Ik# fNdva^ aaaa far# •!*» oaMa W only a wmm (©. 1920, by^AfcChire N^WBpap^r Syndicate.) M I dare you,” Peter called Utntalix- Ingly from Ihe far end of the foot- log to Betty, 'poised on the stump, whence it had been cut. She was like a butterfly, newly alighted, standing now on tiptoe, now' teetering on both heels, arms wide and high above her Shoulders, with bunches of red-bud flowers In each hand. “You think I’m foolish enough not to take a dare,” she flung back dis dainfully, her words muffled by the noise of the swollen creek. It was late March, but warm enough for May —almost sultry. Indeed—hence the red bud flowers. The pair had been stroll ing through a narrow, wooded bottdin where all manner of sylvan things were waking cheerily. Across ihe stream there was a sonth-looking bill slope above a low limestone bluff. Sturm! tliiek in every seam and cran ny with bepfiticas, white, pink and pule purple. .\lM.»*e them string-bark tree* bore cLusters of white stars with pointed golden hearts, as beautiful as orchids, and sweeter than spring It self. Betty wanted the white stars— wanted to pluck them herself. She was not *uper*iith»u.*, of enurar—still It was rmintryshte l«ellef with the un lettered that wishes ma*te os yon pin «-ke«l were sure to come true. Hrtiee her refusal of Peter’s help, her resolve to • r**ss fh# stream, whrth er Jr imi Ivter vowed she maM nev er walk (hr lag. even with hit help— •A off root end ww let root ip-fce earn, hat i the Hinging wot shirt fhiealed mao Hoo and • lore© to delight toy eye; moreover, hit Hutch of her showed giant otrengtb. He didn’t wait fur her to refuse liellew’a eager Invitation. “Home’a nearer—going there la tho best proeoBtlvo of uklng cold.” ho ■aid almost brusquely, ’it’s mighty nice of you to offer us fire and sliel- ter—tJmnk you a lot—but wet doga hod better get to their owm kennela.” ^Then he half-led, half-dragged Betty away, bowing airily to the pair they left. On the way to the log Betty stopped him, pointing to a flowering tree overhead, and reaching silently to twitch off low-hanging clusters of starry flowers. She was quite willing to be carried over the stream. Peter -set a tentative foot on the log, then plunged down to the streamside, say ing, with a grin, “We can’t be wetter— here goes!” then went striding steadily across. He put down his passenger unbidden, picked tip her hat and flow ers and starUnl along the homeward path at nearly a dog-trot. But Betty kept up with him quite cleverly. In a whiff her color had come back, her eyes were shiny, not clouded, and her hair beginning to frame her face hP adorable small tendrils. Viewing fltl which from the c«>nier of his eye, he smiled whimsically, saying, “Lucky those others,” nodding backward, “inn’t set* you now, Betsy! Jack would fall in love with you all over again, and Cousin Kmma want to bite Jierself with jealous spite. Fine aa she looked in her outdoor get-up, she’d have nothing oa yo®. Now you hare, as the darkies say, TV*ne come un- drowned.’ I»id you wish anything on her when you got tho flow era V | “Not a thing.'* Betsy panted. m»- nine n yard ahead of him. tlo caught her arm aaylng. sternly. “No running awn), rules! Things have got to bo act tied right kero and now* 'Oh have they Y* Bettv flung o#s# I her shooMer. twisting a# her faro oaa hliieu Hhr one «0 In a glms—ok* twinkle In Peter's eyes hod hetra/od _ kgs no* •■# oomo no* os#td w« them he asttlsd ackeoni ^4* ithMO oa sffe pknosaff Iverr koff 9mm sm twng sm eSeoffftostty ket awevy ffoao. ) ~ ntMi'e •• aawrk •• koe am# SaMMW If' oa Its kev kwoedy aoff tooaaaaJf rkmen || ooa dadOffktfM ks kffa# kff» e*aoi yeeaewHg IO kosff M aooe •## TWov . a* ohi toko h*s |/we*a eWsfe mm> vnoam «k# aunasMI m tkann imi namffmod n nuts ham kn l ioor ch# onnyakas ad kaa Udh rfmm kdm samna ale snn «o “I >teh thmmn uknaidk utn# dma esk oknad Ukam) §• yoms etm dswom>d iko ohm* na tsaut uasn n« Tsb amooty ooiaag aaaMfl roarB to tvO mm or aovvan m Uko aa t ■ . ot t#awt>niot*oo ft *■4 only non eke keqper pete ta a# ee #trv kanwao kotOff i 1 ImsI tko pw fftll mi ef tke Iwoea eg tke g® j» re aoff Otan i twm (NMifPV ftm f iNP Mil lie 0 ee ff«g er ee»< PWffWfi" # it Aimmno eto | $w f 9 Mill isea tkfea fk*f fen ■ h ^ — —j*. a., n * i- ■ Pff •* f•« i-erv. ? -'*« ' * mm n itfv iMe rvvaa* OaB L TW sartkaff cee»M* ta io saokttag no X ray gketegrapk • f tk# koodL SkW a log tke kMOm anil t!L <e Aogeeoffffa Hrd gfeiab OmOM not •keM tke flrak. kof 1 n nnlrf tkot tke r»v«w<f may kk ■'•M*t|*i«* •# tke Ifeogeev nr** woke*) In an ««|mm per *alf. ky H»r» ine nf *vbleb all tke lit* ra aoff ninrke are Hearty •h«*nn. Iki ri«*r . fle« lere r*m «ki«|«*re that the |w*%%*|* kliiy aw**r*te«| ky file ilfaeovrry of keej >ing a record of nails as oHI as of finsey print* aho nld pn»ve of rb»* gr» •5iti**f use In *t«U*itiif> ing rrliwlnal*. *>•« Tw«on Hat domsan g*o« to Taho a Os*a * O* w mm . <- Vast Wealth In Liberia. The Sun and New York Herald a few weeks ago whs probably the first I newspaper in our country to announce that Liberia. In West Africa, had ju^t come into view as very rich In natural resource*, both agricultural ’and min* eral. It is nearly a* large as the *tate of New York, fronts 1 on the Atlantic i for about UOQ miles and its coast belt is only about twenty miles wide. I North of the coast Init the whole; country is a vast forest, through I which Sir Alfred Sharpe of England lias recently penetrated. Me has in formed the Koval Geographical so ciety of the enormous populnjion of this, till now, unknown forest innd and of the unexpected resource's, in- Vluding gold and other minells, that await development there. . * - Radio Control for Airplanes. There can he doubt that if the war hud lasted a few months longer we would have witnessed the leading nr- ! mles employing great' fleets of fiir- plnm s controlled by radio means. The United States army hud -progressed pretty far along this line when the ..r«nUli4«» ib-uu dMHavwd- uaeiu i cao In* «ald for Germany. Now ue • bum that Ihe French have demon strated that Ave or ais small am) In- e\prft»ivr tWMnhlng planes, with* *it I lot cad he aur rea m fully *w ded ky a “slMpfhori*- ka a largur tke-v-gk * fW memm stf Heruian w»ve%— fl» •vwti ffr AaweMU Pi IgfvuugK. a#aaudkug a# fuamur au%e«#t« «• IkHUA 1 Mki mH >Mr w a tai sat hefuetf upon thi* tr**** trunk an*I iMitan to in* b along It. «|owly. but and it ’wenuMt hPtli* iJmii curely. “That Is «mj«* way!” Peter glggl***l. “Take mr*j»s»* you •loti't w**t >**ur —they almost tmich water n*iw—and It'^ lowtT in the middle “Thank you for nothljig. I haven’t lost si^bt nor hearing.” Betty retorted, somewhat bivuilih-ssly. Tlie progr»*ss. so ca^y in theory, was proving IihhI and slow—besides the Idg stub mid way fannied menacingly. Sin* cOuld not |H*«^ibly lift herself past it —crawl ing over was her only hope. "Go a wav. * 1 hate to he wtitched,” she pantinl to IN'tcr Who looked at the water. The-log appeared to turn up- siV( am 'and go sailing to nowhere— desperately she essayed to follow if— with a result ot t’mding herself in <*eld and Very swift water three- feet do<'f>. IF swept her like a dead leaf down to a pool Apry much deeper.. As She came to its surface Peter clutched her. hMd her with one hand, and very shortly drew her safe to the hank. Borne hundred yards below where she had fallen in. And ihcrt* watching, first with coneern. then with ftllghtly veiled am’iKcrflont. stood Jack Bollew i»4*4 his cwunHmmwr u very pn itcni of trim elegance In tweed*, high bonis and Severely tailored hat. They had •'•une from the Bellew house upcm the hill t«m. to aee tk# creek )uot post It* floml Mage, sot) the oak log wooffa Brfty imoK hate «Aom them hash why ho4 (hey <B#smo thi* apeetol saaemog f«ar thete mml) JWk Ihlkpo hod hsoo fluctee- aug ahami has omoe tho CTNfsitmma yot ahm *# UMI fsoss ffoemso iff km saMth a# who tuff SMMhrkMff sum m toff to hoe H. C. L HITS EVEN SEA GULLS ff.rOs Na«o Aunoat PoaeteO the ora tera ArewMg iteai v##a mi keorth at Feoff In-fe n«l -■ J » that the II 1\ I. ha* driven them away. •New \T»rk**rs an* •*»* **«*<iii«*mic,il at preM*nt that the ^#*m gull** cuntmi . timl enough to live ••u lierealMuils. ■ When* have they gone?” n|*IU*d an oniitbologlsr to an Inquiry. ‘ TlH*n* i> no niysiery ahont if. They ha\e g*MM» where they timl it easier to live. Those v beautiful birds which we ifs«-d to s**e on the Hudson and around the hoy an- now doubt)ess living *1 considerable distance out at mui.” i He explained that the sen gull live* principally on food >tufT retrieved from the water. “When the New Yorkers wen* foreed to guard the market basket so rigorous ly and eliminate waste in every way, the sea gulls found their fond supply ; curtailed fo tin* vanishing point. They accordingly went where they could get it. You will And them today in the •track of the coastwise steamships or , further out at sea in tin* lanes of the 1 Atlantic liners, where there is not so ' 'much e< om»m.Y in the shipV galley.**— New York Sun. Faith in Dream Justified. Partial bMnffae**. it Is elntmedt hr* been cured through the medium of a dream A boy dreamed three nights In succession that If he stood on a cer tain bridge at lYagne at midnight he would ***r •oms oc»e who nuuld work a mlraHe for him The ) usttU wrt*t to the hHffgv naff, after watting tkeer fag kowrs «as engMOg nwgy ffHw^ pMooieff nke'a ko naec a anno sko kn- gnkmff wktf ko kffdl koow sawoffkng ikoee ao iMffL flmff 1 onarysffw okm yoMoeff k# hOMMSO Off) sMssammi FOR SALE 1,500 SACKS CEMENT. ’ 60,000 BRICK, INCLUDING SEVERAL THOUSAND ROUGH TEXTURE BRICK 1,000 SACKS PLASTER. ANY OR ALL OF THE ABOVE, AT AT TRACTIVE PRICES F. O. B. WILLISTON I HAVE IN TRANSIT ONE CARLOAD OF FINE MULES, YOUNG AND WELL BROKEN TO WORK ANYWHERE. I ALSO HAVE A LARGE STOCK OF BUGGIES AND WAGONS THAT 1 CAN SELL AT PRICES LOWER THAN THE WHOLESALE MARKET. I CAN NOW MAKE IMMEDIATE DE LIVERY OF EITHER SHORT OR LONG LEAF PINE TIMBER ROUGH OR ORES- Q. A. Kennedy Williaton, S. G • 4. The Facts of the Telephone Situation in South Carolina •exr.ax asix mjteno.w. a m auurn comtaxt Other Increased Costs of Operation ragarsffaw* wHh taUsw um» matsna The mS • a*< a In Hofffana ploffl • s4 ns fflawn i is# f'mmmrnt • Mage kffa mo t Staff ky ffNa ksiivwitff warum Htt «f iko yrnmlgnJ 1 §*-ft, iTaaa C I’kaataat Pole -- r - , r - TBT - - r .■ llir ■ :o I Ik ft t’laaa TP Polo 1 M * -> 1Irt»n HI ir« 1 Cel. Ml No 12 Copper Wire ^ 1000 ft. loo pr 22 (It Aerial ( able lost ft too pr 22 Oa i g cabin 100 ft. 4duct Single Clay Conduit installed under Asphalt Pavement 1 subscriber « Drop installed 1 subscriber’s Station installed mall set — —.— S subscriber's Sut .on installed desk net 1 sec tlon No. 1 subscriber’s Switchboard installed _ ......... 1 section No. 1 Toll Switchboard gistalled — Buildings per cubic fool —— — t§u itsa Poe Gnffl nf Iff* $ ?• I 11M itv i«ii M !••• sa xtn 7t If 144 U M Iff M 91 319 3e 197 #4 §4 1349 44 1.792 U IS 193A2 12M 41 19, 4 >« TOO 4k 13 90 19.§0 U la 41 22.34 4k 74.10.01^ 17.140 00 131 1994.00 . 4.240.00 144 ■Wt'jr .40 J* Today yhe average price of all plant ma terial is more than D7 per cent*higher than in 1914. There is no present indication that these prices will be lower. The combined effect of the ^increase in its wage bill, and the prices of material, meant) that it ! costs the Company more than $2 00 to construct, maintain and operate the same amount of plant that, formerly cost $1.00. The cost of construction concerns the own ers of the property, being paid for out of the capital account of the Company. The cost of replacement of the present Plant concerns the owners^of the property, being paid for out-of the* replacement re serve fund. Practically all ef this fund was created upon a basis of pre war costn. Present-day cofl's make it inadequate, ao that It must be supplemented by new capital when ro- The cost of the daily, current maintenance of the plant concerns the telephone user,, being an expense of operation, paid for out of the earnings of the Company at current labor and material coats. Annual contributions to the replacement fund for the plant constructed today and to morrow. concerns the telephone user, being an expense <?f operation, paid for out of tho earnings of the Company; based upon the costs of labor and material when the plant T& constructed. The gross earnings of the Company must be sufficient for the daily, current operation and maintenance of the plant, and to create an adequate replacement fund to replace tho plant at the end of its service life. * In no other way can efficient and contin uous service be bad ky the public, or tbff property of the owners be protected. C ‘ - The neat advertise ment will tell yo® why and %rl»at you con •eevtae for in# do to Insure 90 m THU PEOPLE. A*4i—ton w D ’